Embedded Programming with Android: Bringing Up an Android System from Scratch

B. Using Repo in This Book

To help you work on the examples in this book more efficiently, especially building the virtual device armemu in both the AOSP and CyanogenMod source trees, this appendix gives a brief introduction to Repo and discusses key features that should be used in AOSP or CyanogenMod builds. Repo is a repository management tool that can help you manage multiple git repositories for large projects, such as those involving AOSP and CyanogenMod. To build AOSP or CyanogenMod, we have to put hundreds of different git repositories together first before we fire the actual build. It is a time-consuming process to download the entire source tree of AOSP or CyanogenMod. The tips and tricks provided in this appendix may help you save a ...